Where does the Ring Ship fit into canon?

Admiral Gardner wasn't in charge of Starfleet, he simply took over whatever Admiral Forrest's job was. Starfleet at the time had a "Command Council" Forrest regularly mentioned in the first two seasons to whom he answered to.

 

I didn't mean Starfleet. I meant the NX Project, which Forrest and then Gardner oversaw and was producing NX ships (like the "USS Enterprise" and "USS Columbia"). It's possible that the NX-03, 04, 09, were all painted with USS on the hull, per Gardner (or someone else new on the scene). The NX Project, in my belief, led to the starship programs seen in use during the Federation.

 

Eh, I would think that the NX ships just followed the same customs as the rest of Starfleet.

 

The other Starfleet starships we saw in ENT had no hull markings on the forward upper saucer, no name, no identity alpha-numerics (eg NX01), So the Enterprise is different from that custom.

 

And might be paving the way for something, or then not.

For all we know, the Romulan War had Starfleet remove all pennant paint so the enemy would have to keep on guessing as to how many NX ships there really were and how many they had already taken care of. Or then paint all the ships as vicious cats to counter the Romulans' flipping of the bird at them.

Timo Saloniemi

 

This thread is like the chocolate bar I've had in my cupboard since 1986. It's:

off Topic

 

That's only because we never saw any of those ships up close, so the effects people weren't going to waste time putting in detail that the viewers would never see.

 

But we did see them up close enough, in "The Expanse" already and never mind "Twilight".

The "because" isn't all that interesting anyway. It's the "thus" that matters...

Timo Saloniemi

 

i think that ring ship is a old vulcan (low warp) design
sold to earth cheaply strategy being making it too expensive/not worthwhile for earth to build their own

 

that other series the ring ship was made for,can you tell me more about it and where the ring ship fitted into that series